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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

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Marketing Funnels and Keyword Research As you probably know, there are three stages of the buyer’s journey: awareness, consideration, and decision. At this stage, the marketer is learning, researching, and becoming aware of potential solutions. She has thoroughly researched solutions and is close to making a decision.

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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

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You don’t want a demo of their software — you haven’t even had time to read their content yet. eBook Learn More According to research from Gartner, B2B buyers are spending more time researching online, and less time interacting directly with sales — as little as 5-6% of their total buying journey.

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Leveraging Educational Webinars: Building Credibility, Not Just Leads

Hinge Marketing

Educational webinars have emerged as a powerful marketing tool for many professional services and B2B firms. But not everyone is on the same page… As someone who has organized, promoted, and produced over 100 webinars at Hinge, you can imagine that I hold some strong perspectives on webinars as a marketing strategy.

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5 Lead Nurture Campaigns that Build Pipeline and Support ROI

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Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? Did they download an eBook, attend a webinar, or do something else? If so, that’s a great first step. Design reengagement campaigns.

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Lead Scoring Model: Building a Framework to Drive Conversion

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Create your buyer personas Your buyer personas are imagined biographies based on firsthand experience, market research, and customer listening. You’re trying to answer one question: How important is this factor in terms of indicating likelihood to purchase? Are you scoring each datapoint on a scale of 1-5?

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What Is Bottom-of-Funnel Marketing? Validating the Purchase

ClearVoice

Marketing activities late in the funnel work to validate the buyer’s purchase through decision-enabling content that helps late-stage buyers confirm their choice and avoid buyer’s remorse. For example, it isn’t appropriate for sales to reach out to someone who just subscribed to the blog to see if they want a demo or a consultation.

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The Risks of Over-Reliance on Late-Stage Content

The Point

That’s not simply because prospective customers will engage more readily with content that better aligns with whether they’re researching best practices, actively evaluating potential vendors, or somewhere in between. Use of very short-term metrics will almost certainly devalue those leads and the perceived ROI from the program.